Waiting for real goods service and tax continues: Congress

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GST Council: After the decision of the Center to change GST on a large scale, the Congress has taunted. He said that the wait for true GST 2.0 is going on.

September 4, 2025

GST Council : Goods service and tax (GST) After changing the change in, the Congress is claiming that the wait for true GST 2.0 is going on. Opposition parties demanded that all states should be compensated for a period of five years by considering 2024-25 as the base year, as their revenue could be adversely affected due to decrease in rates. At the same time, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge (Mallikarjun kharge) Said that our party has been demanding simplification of GST for almost a decade. He further said that the Modi government converted the ‘one nation, one tax’ into ‘one nation, 9 tax’. This mainly included tax slabs of 0%, 5%, 12%, 18%, 28%, 0.25%, 1.5%, 3%and 6%.

Pranab Mukherjee introduced the bill

Kharge said that the Congress party had demanded GST 2.0 in its 2019 and 2024 manifestos with a simple and rational tax system. Along with this, we had demanded to simplify GST, in which MSME and small businessmen were badly affected. He said that on February 28, 2005, the Congress-UPA government had formally announced GST in the Lok Sabha. Kharge said that in 2011, when the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee brought the GST Bill and the BJP opposed it at that time. He said that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat and he also strongly opposed it. But today the BJP government is celebrating this, as if it has done a big job by recovering tax from the common people. He said that for the first time in the history of the country after independence, it is happening that farmers have been taxed and the Modi government has decided to impose GST on at least 36 items in the agriculture sector.

64 percent share comes from the pocket of the poor

Apart from this, GST has also been imposed on everyday items like milk-curd, flour-anaz. Even children’s pencil books, oxygen, oxygen and hospital expenses have been taxed. Explain that the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi called GST as Gabbar Singh Tax and said that the total share of GST comes from 64 percent of the poor and middle class pockets. Kharge said that only 3 percent of billionaires are charged from GST, while the corporate tax rate has been reduced from 30 to 22 percent. He claimed that in the last 5 years, there has been 240 percent increase in tax tax collection and 177 percent in GST collection.

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